When you create a team, it will always start in bronze, and you’ll have to war your way back up to gold. This is easier if you have some friends that come with you to your new team. Then just try to fill your team to 50/50 to make it easier to win wars, as most teams in bronze and silver don’t have full teams.
It also helps to take what you know and put it in the wiki, as well as many of the resources available here, like breeding guides, war strats, season planning etc.
You might want to post in the recruitment section here in the forums, using “casual players welcome” and “don’t like atlas? Join us” as your strong points.
And yes, atlas is limited to plat and up (although plat - saph 3) currently don’t have it.
Good luck!

I’m having the hardest time finding the quote, but I recall someone from PG saying that they only wanted to release it as low as platinum, as not to overwhelm more casual players.
I personally think atlas is pretty fun with multiple levels of things to do. I’m also really impressed with @PGDave’s player interaction and implementation from player’s feedback, although tbh, there seems to be more implementation from player feedback as a whole from PG since the new forums went up.

I remember Pixxel on twitch stating Atlas will not go to teams below Plat because you need to have strong well rounded, active teams.Gold and below just aren’t. No offense to anyone. I just remember people making a big deal because she told people to switch to a higher team if they wanted Atlas.

We want to be a training team, to get low players ready for whats ahead of them. We do not like Atlas and would just like to play the not so stressful regular WD. And hopefully teams will get to know that we release awesome players to advance forward. I just want to come on and relax and play, while teaching others.